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8.A. - Page 228 <br /> New S quc. a Theater <br /> San Mateo County, C1. <br /> CONTINUATION SKEET <br /> Section. Numi: - r: 8 Page: 4 <br /> Th had used a t adaption of d.P' .tr e once before in : `3' 1 h cm the <br /> ri_►liseum , fher er at Clement and Ninth Streets. ;n San Francisco, (since <br /> de i :)iislled i. <br /> The Gothic Revi' al style Etati ;:. e;t i .irodL: d to America in the 1S40s by <br /> 'irhard ;pjo!:r. w.ho helped establish it a a fesi - m. of eccie i is ,i.: T <br /> design well inc the 20th cere:t'•ry "Carr elizcr V.othic ecceme one of thc <br /> popular pattern -book !rouse plans prior tc the fill War, The style <br /> reemerged in the late 19th tttr 6ug,h the Work of airy: litre Cr :;r1 and <br /> ?. o+ hue, adapted to the fields of commercial and educational c1 i :Ect.w .. , <br /> well as to ecclesiastical. The "Collegiate Gothic' `'k"m became a natiana', <br /> emblem for c ltural insVtutroz . As early as :913, Cass Gilber 's New 'Ell <br /> Woolworth Building showed the fosskbi it es of the style applied to th. <br /> design of tall office buildings. However, it waste the 1 922 Chicago Tribune <br /> Tower competition r:hat the Late Uothic ;tevival style exerted its greatest <br /> influence on architectural design in the al west. <br /> It was not the first prize winner in the Chicago competition, but the second-- <br /> place entry by Elie! Saarinen that would Dave its mark on the San i'rancisee <br /> skyline in the u <1- 1920s. `+eves al of Saaritcn's design solutions for the <br /> Tribune Tower were incorporated in major building projects in San Francise.o, <br /> beginning with Miller and Pflec,ger - s Pacific Telephone Building in 1925. <br /> Strong perpendicular lines were employed to express the verticality of the <br /> skyscraper. The tower was gracefully stepped -back and ornament was esecl <br /> inventively. In 1927 George Kelham drew from these same sources for biz.; <br /> Russ Buildin.g.. which the . =lr weer ithe Eig.itrect described as The center oF` <br /> western progress ". <br /> It is possible that the Russ FluUing and other Ducal responses to the Saarinzl.n <br /> design may have influencel the Reid .Brothers' Redwood City Theater <br /> building. The New Sequoia's prejeeting concrete piers and stepped - back <br /> tower give the large building mass a stro.ag ver ica! emphasii, while the rast- <br /> cnr_cret.e tracery screen, drawn from the English Perpendicular decorative <br /> votcabulary, effectively articulates the broad '. rface of it e. f. +rinciprd <br /> elevation. <br />